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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






2. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






3. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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4. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






5. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






6. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






7. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






8. r-controlled syllable






9. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






10. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






11. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






12. Final stable syllable

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13. Multisensory Structured Language Education






14. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






15. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






16. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






17. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






18. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






19. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






20. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






21. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






22. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






23. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






24. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






25. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






26. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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27. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






28. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






29. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






30. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






31. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






32. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






33. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






34. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






35. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






36. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






37. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






38. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






39. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






40. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






41. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






42. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






43. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






44. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






45. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






46. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






47. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






48. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






49. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






50. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)